I am in the UK and am finding the same strange resulst between .co.uk and the other google datacentres. For the 1 keyword i am at #16 in google datacentres US. If i then count the UK based sites above me there is only 2. So you would think that when i do this search in the .co.uk i would be #3 but no i am #6 It is the same for all my main keywords I am also seeing the same with Yahoo where at yahoo.com i am in the top 3 for all my 5 main keywords. When i do this search at yahoo.co.uk i am between 3 & 6. I'm not totally sure but i think it may be down to the fact of the number of backlinks i have from the US againt those i have from the UK. I am going to check in the next few days if the sites above me have more backlinks from UK based sites. If anyone has an opion on this please let me know
Well sure, of course you will get different results. SERPs are partly based on where websites actually reside, location wise. If you have a website that is hosted in the UK, that site will appear much higher than SERPs in the US. That's just part of the algo.
Are you marketing a .com or .co.uk site If in the UK and serving mainly the UK but marketing with a .com website you could be pushed down due to that. I have had two clients move from .com to co.uk due to this reason. I also believe the UK sense of loyalty has helped their sites conversions improve, once moved to the .co.uk TLD Clint
It would be easier to tell with domain and keyword terms, but Your competition may indeed have only links from other co.uk sites and will out rank you on the .co.uk side but on .com have little links from .com and fall below you. Also Google displays websites based on user query location as well...so the results you see are somewhat effected by where you live.... I may search for your keywords and find a completely different set of results for both TLDs from the engines.
o u really think .com and co.uk makes a difference, i thought it only makes a difference when you search BY COUNRY in the option below the google search
ash1 Actually Google will see where the search query is made from... and return results based on localization and globalization. In other words if you are in France when you search on Google.com most of the sites should be closer to your location than say dispaying sites from the US. Hope this makes sense.